The author knew that his paper "Huffman's algebra via algebra" was translated to Russian and was published in "Kiberneticheskiy sbornik", volume 22. He asks only if it is easy for the addressee to send a copy of this paper. The author hopes the addressee's health continues to be fine.

The author congratulates on the New Year, to the letter he attaches a new digest of the conference of program planners and the invitation to the conference PD'87. He informs of the forthcoming election of the Hungary Academy of Sciences.

The addressee is suggested to renew his subscription to "IBM Systems Journal" for 1987.

The author is very glad to receive the addressee's letter after a long pause. He tells of members of his family - four suns, a daughter and a wife, a little of his work. He asks to write and hopes to meet again. /Handwritten text./

The author describes in detail events happened to Dennis' relatives - wife's brother and her sister - in 1986. His smart son is now two and a half. He tells about his brother and his mother, about a wife's and his own job.

The author is very glad with the improvement of Andrei Petrovich's health. He informs of events and bussines.

The author thanks for the kind words. He appreciates deeply the addressee's contribution to "Science and Computer". Philosophical note: "The years slip by at ever increasing rates and we should try to intersect our world lines soon."

D.Aufenkamp and his wife are delighted to have seen A.Ershov again in USA and to learn that his health is improving. D.Aufenkamp has also oncological problems which are discussed further in this letter.

inviting to contribute to a special issue of the "BIT" magazine which will be dedicated to the 60th birthday of Peter Naur.

The addressee is suggested to subscribe to the issue "Bigre + Globule". It's possible to order earlier published volumes of this issue at the price mentioned in the letter.

The author asks the addressee's consent to review some papers to the Seventh Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, which will be held in Pune during December 17-19, 1987. Reviewer's Information Form is enclosed.

about Permanent Exhibition on Mathematical Instruments, Computers and Microelectronics arranged by German museum.

to a list of abstracts of Linkoeping University publications written since 1985 to order some of them if the addressee is interested in.

It is an answer to the postcard dated May 5, 1987. Author immediately sent SEKI Reports and Working Papers, that A.Ershov ordered. She politely asks him to send with notice, that his order is regular or additional, some fantastic postcards as an exchange to papers, if this is not too expensive for him.

The author invites A.Ershov to give a lecture "The use of computers within the education system in USSR" at the conference which will be held in Herning Congress Centre during 19-21 November, 1987. All the travelling expenses, board and lodging are payed by the Danish side.

North-Holland is pleased to present the revised edition of the booklet: New Publications in Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Knowledge Ingineering, 1987.

Secretariat of Theoretical Informatics and Programming Laboratory of Paris University informs of numbers of unpublished authors.

to the invitation to participate in symposium on VDM to be held in Dublin, 11-16 September 1988, also to a short description of VDM'87 Proceedings.

The author informs that his wife and him depart for the trip from the 20th August till the 2nd October. He was very busy this summer: translated the book, worked on the computer Cray XMP 48, which was liked to him, and received unexpected results. He hopes to meet with the addressee soon.

Author would like to organize an excursion for 20-30 informatics students and scientists to the USSR. He asks to help him visit addressee's institute during a stay in Akademgorodok as well as to suggest some other key-people to contact.